6 Proceedings of the lioyal Physical Society. 
M. Von Humboldt, Berlin. 
M. Freiesleben, Thuringia. 
M. H. Meuder, Freyberg. 
M. Herder, Freyberg. 
Such then was the institution of the Wernerian Society. 
On the 20th January 1808, the laws of the Society were 
drawn up by a committee. 
In regard to resident members it is ruled that the number 
shall not exceed 100; and in regard to honorary members 
that they shall not exceed 10. 
The meetings were held in the College Museum, or in a 
room adjoining to it, at two o'clock in the afternoon. 
All natural history specimens presented to this Society were 
to be deposited in the College Museum. 
A charter or seal of cause was subsequently obtained from 
the Town-Council, and the Society was incorporated on 10th 
February 1808, under the name of the Wernerian Natural 
History Society. 
The first meeting for public business took place on 2d 
March 1808, in the College Museum. 
The record of the proceedings of the Society from that time 
up to April 21, 1838, is printed as an appendix to the published 
Memoirs of the Society, vols, ii.-vii. 
In these volumes valuable papers are given on various de- 
partments of Natural History. 
Among the contributors of Papers we may notice the fol- 
lowing : — In Geology and Mineralogy — Professor .Jameson, 
Mr Bald, Dr Fleming, Dr Macknight, M. Haidinger, Dr 
Adam, M. Boue, Mr George Anderson, Mr Trevelyan, Dr Hib- 
bert, Mr Witham, Mr R. J. Hay Cunningham, Mr James 
Smith, and Mr Torrie. In Chemistry — Dr Thomas Thomson, 
and Dr Murray. In Botany — Mr Eobert Brown (one of 
his early papers on the Natural Order Asclepiadese was read 
on 4th November 1809), Messrs David and George Don, Mr 
R. K. Greville, Dr Walker Arnott, Mr Macgillivray, Mr Mar- 
shall, Mr Francis Hamilton, Rev. Dr Scot. In Zoology and 
Comparative Anatomy — Mr Montague, Dr Fleming, Mr Neill, 
Dr Barclay, Mr Leach, Mr Thomas Brown, Mr James Wilson, 
